Meanwhile, Belinda’s assistant was respectful and loyal but he did not love her.

Similarly, she did not like him romantically, so their relationship remained that of a lady and her servant.

If she had fallen for her assistant back then, perhaps the children she bore would have been even better and her daughter would not have been switched at birth with another baby.

Caroline laughed. “Mom, I don’t want to think about love right now, and I don’t have the time to date either. I told you that if